Toshiba first to announce Android-powered netbook
While Android is designed for smartphones it seems only natural that Google targets the next large market opportunity: mobile computing.
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Facebook likes revenue, $800 million of it in ’09
Facebook earned approximately $800 million in’09 according to reports this morning. The six-year old service, with nearly half a billion users across the world, exploded…
Tablet sales to eclipse Netbooks by 2012, but why?
It's a perfect storm of cultural transformation: social networking, micro-communication, and a societal premium placed on content consumption.
Scoring Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft E3 announcements
It’s often surprising how much innovation and R&D funding goes into the video game industry. Each year, the three players—Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft—up the ante in…
Canon EOS DSLR Cameras: 5 tips for shooting video
"I shot a whole music vid on the beast… it’s better than the $100,000 HD Varicam I shot on in 05." -- Cullen Hoback, film…
Starbucks offers free wi-fi, seats even harder to find
To deprive us of our Google-ing, Facebook-ing, and Twitter-ing is cause, it seems, for civil unrest.
Google, now more like Bing
All of a sudden Google looks a lot more colorful this morning. Staid be gone. And it seems that with Bing, Microsoft can still throw…
Ed Norton on “the power of the crowd” and fundraising
You can add yet another personality to Ed Norton, star of Fight Club. Although this one is not related to project mayhem, it does share…
ThinkPad X100e Review: One Intel chip short of greatness
This is the little ThinkPad that could. It’s so full of potential, and so close to greatness, it’s hard not to cheer it on, even…
Apple announces new iPhone 4
At times he looked like a crazed and gangly magician, waving, grinning as the crowd oohed and awed.